Thanks for the nap mat and for the promised gift ...

Hyzyd receives his fourth nap mat from a dear friend. What I love about it is it's padded and lined with nylon and cotton with a soft, fleecy blanket. It rolls up and has a Velcro closure with carrying strap. It has a soft blanket attached and a removable foam pillow. If I need to wash it, I'll just remove the pillow, then toss the rest in the washing machine. No wonder that my preschool learners also uses nap mats in school.



By the way, do you remember the towel wrap that my hubby promised to buy for me this coming August to celebrate Mother's day here in Thailand? Well, I'm pretty excited about it! Can't wait to use it on our another planned getaway!




Before I'll forget, I'm wondering if this personalized Pink Pony Mint laundry bag could be a nice birthday gift for my preggy sis-in-law? I just want to give her something unique and useful. What do you think?

Kreativ Award for Creative bloggers

What a lovely award I received from Jacris of Mom's Special Diary . Thank you so much sis, I love this!

Rules:

To accept this award do the following:

1. Thank the person who nominated you for this award.
2. Copy the logo and place it on your blog.
3. Link to the person who nominated you for this award.
4. Name 7 things about yourself that people might find interesting.
5. Nominate 7 Kreativ Bloggers.
6. Post links to the 7 blogs you nominate.
7. Leave a comment on each of the blogs letting them know they have been nominated.

Here's my 7 things about my self:

1. I'm proud to be the eldest of 14 children!
2. I can express myself better in writing than in speaking.
3. I married my first and only boyfriend...he..he...
4. My personality is Phlegmatic Melancholy.
5. I kept lots of notebooks-for budgeting, personal stuff, drafts of posts to be blogged, Bible reading, school stuff, recipe, etc.....
6. I still have the desire to take up Masteral and doctoral degree in Education.
7. I love to have four more children...LOL!

Here's my 7 creative bloggers:
1. Yaying of Mumsters Degree
2. Rache of Recaptured Moments
3. Hazel of Delineating Des
4. Denise of Shorty bear's Place
5. Laiza of Pieces of Me
6. Chubskulit of Our Clan's Marveling
7. Nuts of Embrace Life

5 Things Friday- 5 Things About Me

I was invited by Jean Stockdale , the host of 5 Things Friday to join the fun. I find her site interesting for she writes to encourage MOMS in the fine art of Christian mothering.

Today's topic is about 5 Things About Me (only five?..I have a lot of things to share...he..he..maybe next time...):

1. I'm proud to be the eldest of 14 children!
2. I can express myself better in writing than in speaking.
3. I married my first and only boyfriend...he..he...
4. My personality is Phlegmatic Melancholy.

5. I'm a friendly soul who knows how to have a good time and whoop it up.From grabbing a casual dinner with friends to checking out a hip, new art exhibit, I'm not afraid to have a little fun.

Do you have any thing to share about yourself? Join us every Friday and play along with Jean Stockdale.

Thankful Thursday- Cultivate thankfulness

Sometimes, I feel that the thing I want most is what God has given to someone else. Thus, jealousy comes in. I thank God that He teaches me not to let this attitude creep into my heart when I turn my eyes upon Him rather than on others. By His power and grace I'll have the strength and courage to move on and let not the enemy render me ineffective and rob me of the joy of serving God.

I thank God for teaching me the best way to avoid this trap-Focus my attention on God and cultivate thankfulness for what he's doing in me- and in others.

Happy Thursday! Join us in expressing thanksgiving to Him by visiting Lynn of Spiritually Unequal Marriage.

A glimpse of my better half

Yaying of Mumsters Degree gave me this tag to feature my dearest better half.

Without much ado, here is it:

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THE BETTER HALF

1. He's sitting in front of the TV, what is on the screen?
- Sports channel-Boxing or else tennis

2. You're out to eat, what kind of dressing does he get on his salad?
- thousand island dressing at Sizzlers

3. What's one food he doesn’t like?
- food that has coconut milk

4. You go out to eat and have a drink, what does he order?
- Chaa Manao - a Thai term for Lemon Tea

5. What shirt size does he have?
- M to L

6. What shoe size does he have?
- 9-9.5

7. What is his favorite type of sandwich?
- A hamburger - he simply likes it 'coz it's a sandwich that consists of a cooked patty made of ground meat and is generally served with various garnish or condiments like ketchup, mustard, mayonnaise, lettuce, tomato, onion, relish, pickles, and cheese toppings, placed inside a sliced Hamburger bun, often baked specially for this purpose, or pieces of bread or toast. The meat patty is beef, unless otherwise noted

8. What would he eat everyday if he could?
- chopsuey

9. What is his favorite cereal?
- any cereal will do

10. What would he never wear?
- sleeveless

11. What is his favorite sports team?
- on what sports? Manchester United for football sports team

12. Who did he vote for?
- it's his private choice

13. Who is his best friend?
- definitely ME

14. What is something he does, but you wish he wouldn't do?
- I couldn't tell you..sorry

15. What is his heritage?
- proudly from a Filipino heritage

16. You bake him a cake, what kind of cake?
- bundt cake

17. Did he play sports in high school?
- Yes, Ping pong

18. What could he spend hours doing?
- Reading or watching online (Hajime no Ippo), Sudden Attack, lesson plan making, tending our orchids, solving the magic cubes, playing PSP

19. What is the unique talent that he has?
- landscaping , art-related endeavor

20. What's his type of coffee?
- White coffee: A black coffee with milk added.

Now I wanna tag the following wifeys:Sis Nonz of The Voice Within Me , Mommy Gigie of Gigie's Planet , Yami of Mom Writes for a Cause , Seiko of Seiko's Diary , Phebie of Love's Haven

Word-Filled Wednesday#3-Be Rich in Good Deeds

Head over to The 160 Acrewoods for more of God's word through photos and Bible verses.

Free Online Form Builder

I used to be assigned as a Registrar aside from being an Instructor in a newly-established sister school of our college in our city. Being a registrar requires a lot of time filling up forms! How I wish at that time that FREE Online Form Builder would be established! Indeed, it is here now!

I saw this one at http://www.hotforms123.com and I find it very interesting. It's a new web-based application that allows users to collect information from the web. Users could customize their own forms with their own unique content and and post it anywhere on their web sites, blogs, and other social networking profiles. All form submissions are collected in a database, e-mailed, and also sent via SMS text message to the users. How's that? You could update all form in real-time. For example if you create a survey form, you may study one topic in the daytime and yet another in the evening, all trough the same form! No need to cut and paste new code or re-embed in new places. Their new technology allows users to create the structure and embed it in multiple places only once, then update the content as often as needed. Every time code loads on the browser, new content is pulled from the server and viewers see new content. The possibilities and application of this technology is really endless. This system works via a very user-friendly web interface. No programming knowledge or skill is needed in the creative or updating process.

I should suggest you'll visit the website, take a virtual tour and try it for free to be familiar with its usage. It claimed that using this system can create sophisticated contact, lead generation, registration, valuation, order, forms and collect information in a very systematic way. Form submissions are 100% secure, will never end up in spam, and are delivered via database, and SMS in real-time.

I better check this out! I can get started in minutes! I'll just simply select a pre-made contact form, enter an email address where I want the results to be sent, generate my custom made form, and I'm done. I could automatically insert the form in my web page, social networking profiles, blogs, and email messages.

Happy Anniversary, Seiko and Yasuyuki!

Today's blog that I wanna feature as Inspirational is Seiko of Seiko's Diary.


I would like to first greet her Happy 19th Wedding Anniversary!

I first meet here in Mommy Moments . Since then, we're exchanging messages and comments. As you can see she's the top 2 here in my Top Commenters' widget as I am in hers. I could say that I could categorize her blog in parenting (as what our meme suggests) because in her diary she's talking about her parenting journey and about her family. She is a mother of 4 beautiful girls, oh no, they are five, not four and at the same time working in Asahi printing press. I'm amazed of how well she managed her time. I love the way they spend their playing time and outdoor fun-like motocross, camping and kayaking ! They're kinda unique and cool!

I learned something from her like dealing MIL. If they acted like sour grapes to us, do the opposite. Do the best you can, be sweet and kind and the sour grape will turn into a sweet grape. This is such a nice lesson. Thank God my MIL is always a "sweet grapes" to me.

Do you know how Seiko relieves her stress?

She relieves her stress through Clay Pigeon Shooting!

I have a lot to tell you about her but maybe it's time for you too to be engrossed with her interesting stories and topics. Visit her site and greet her on her wedding anniversary today!

Once again, Happy Wedding Anniversary to you Seiko and to your hubby. I pray you'll have the best in life as well as in your marriage. May you continue to love each other as if this is still your honeymoon.

By the way, if you wish to feature an inspiration blog, don't hesitate to join us at Inspirational Insights.

Everyone has a chance to sell their handmade products online

The jewelries I wore- earrings, necklace and bracelet were all Handmade products made with love from one of my friends, Princess Sarah of My Memories and Crystals. She made it from swarovski stones. My girl friends love it and they were asking me to order some for them.

How I wish people with talents like her could sell their handmade product online. We're even suggesting about selling her products in ebay but just today I found out about www.amber-store.com. I'm so excited to tell her about this kind of online store who helps talented people sell their handmade products for www.amber-store.com is all about Handmade products made with love.

Amber store on the other hand is not only a kind of a "STORE" but a PROJECT that helps very talented people sell their handmade products online. I'm also ecstatic to know about this kind of project because my father who's a minister had contacts from indigenous group of people who are making earthenware products, wooden products and knitted products . They have state-of-the-art handmade products but still most of them live poorly because of lack of buyers and their products were still unknown because they don't use internet. The creators of www.amber-store.com will give them the oportunity to sell their fabulous work. It's a new project but soon it will grow bigger, as more and more artist are joining in.

I'm sending an email to my father to check this site and project so that he could contact www.amber-store.com and ask them for more inquiries on how they could assist the indigenous friends we have sell their products online.

By the way, if you're interested to buy handmade jewelries made from swarovski stones you could click the link of my friend to contact her and to see some of her designs. She will also make according to your taste and style. Just feel free to let her know of what you want and I'm sure you'll be fully satisfied as I had experienced.

Just curious about her...

I'm not updated with Showbiz news now from Philippines that's why I got amazed when I opened KBS Channel this morning and I saw 2NE1 performing an MTV and I noticed someone very familiar- it's Sandara Park (ang tinaguriang Pambansang Krung Krung ng Pilipinas) ! I searched in the internet to confirm if it's really her and the answer is

Photo source:HERE

2NE1 is composed of Park Bom, Gong Minji,CL and Sandara Park (next to the girl that is wearing pink)

So, Sandara Park is currently in Korea now. Park joined Korea’s popular group 2NE1 and the newest member of 2NE1 created by YG Entertainment. 2NE1 is also called New Evolution of the 21st century.

By the way, why I'm curious about her? It's because I saw her before auditioning on the popular talent show “Star Circle Quest” held by one of the largest television companies in the Philippines. Maybe because she's Korean she was a novelty during the entire course of the contest and gained many fans with her charisma. She did not win the contest being able to capture the second spot behind her boyfriend, who won the contest. Famous for her relationships, (lack of-should i say it?) talent, awkwardness, cool clumsiness (!?!) and cheesy image, Sandara Park, was able to capture a great number of fans during her reign as Pop Princess.

He..he..I'm just entertaining myself today...